Sunday, June 13, 2010

Allergies? Congestion? You want to win this one!

I often feel like I can't breathe when my allergies get bad.

Usually, I just make everyone around me miserable suffer through it. Mostly because I hate taking medicine but also because I hate to spend the money on something unless I know that it's going to work.

Friends of mine have sworn by their neti pots when they are congested. I don't know...that thing sort of freaks me out. What a mess, I thought.

Then, I was sent the OCEAN Complete® Sinus Irrigation system to try. It is similar to the action of a neti pot without the mess. It provides natural, positive pressure sinus irrigation and/or soothing nasal moisturizing in a non-medicated nasal spray with no drug side effects.

OCEAN Complete®($14.99) is a two-in-one product that allows you to irrigate and moisturize nasal passages simply by changing the actuator tips.

I only tried the irrigation so far, as that was my need. It was very easy to use- especially when I added the nasal adapter, which helps to place it the correct depth into your nose(you know me- I'm a bit of a klutz and didn't want to end up shoving this too far up there and damaging something).

I love my Neti pot but it's not real convenient to bring to work - this looks like it would be the perfect thing to keep there. Sometimes Dorkalicious here will end up with the front of her shirt wet if I'm not careful how I lean over the sink when I use the Neti.

Ugh, I muddle through making EVERYONE around me miserable and then I get grumpy, annoyed and end up snapping at anyone in my eyesight... poor them. Help, save some innocent people...send me this amazing new allergy relief. BTW_ found you through Tammy's blog.love your blog-

For this round of allergies, I am drinking water and taking mucinex religiously. I just started the mucinex though. I usually take benadryl allergy & sinus. However, when I graduate, I'm moving back to Colorado where my allergies were more easily controlled!!!

Allergies? Oh yeah. Year-round allergies. I've become addicted to my Zyrtec-D and even still have to occasionally pop the Bene's and some type of Sinus Congestion pill. Especially now that it is Yellow Fly Season on the OBX and I am allergic to them. Which equates to all kinds of fun things.

I've thought about the Neti Pot, the Youth Minister says it is the best ever, but ick. That just looks gross and messy. So, nice and clean would work for me.

I use Alavert. Or Claratin. Or really, whatever box I grab first. None of them really work for me anyway. I didn't have any allergy issues until I moved to NC 9 years ago, and this year it wasn't bad, until I started telling people it wasn't bad. Stupid jinx.

Oh, and Vicks or someone used to make these great vaporub tablets that you put on the shower floor and then then steam from your shower released it and you could berathe. But I can't find them anywhere anymore. Stupid Vicks.